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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-06
A Franz S~outherner

In the smaller towns OF the South thu
stranger is always struck by the apparent
fact that the landlord of the hotel ought ,c
be in some other business. There is no sys
TEN in the management, and it never SCENT
to occur to mine host that anything is ex
pecued of him. One day when the landlord
of q village hotel sat down with me for g
smoke, 1 summoned up courage to say:
Landlord, that vas an awful bed you
gave me last night"
"Yes, sir; don't doubt it. sir. I've got
some very bad beds in this house."
"And your walters here are very lazy and
%impudent."
II know it. Yes, sir, they are"
"And such fare! That coffee was AWFUL
II know it. I've had to stop drinking
coffee"
And that butter is nothing but Chicago
lardine."
That's it exactly. Can't anybody eat
that stuff"
"And you don't know how to cook
meats"
I'VE don't sir, and l am free to admitit."
II noticed that the milk was about half
water"
II think it was. 1 used to drink it, but
now l take clear water instead"
'Colnel, can l ask you a fair question:"
you can, SIR
"Why do you keep a hotel instead ofrun-
ming a sawmill?"
why do l, sir? Because sir, l feel that
| don't known enough to run the mill! l
know what I'm capable of, and I'm timid
about going into anything and making q
failure of it r'-Detroit Free Press
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PERSONAL

Mr.. George Casey went to Philipsbura
yesterday.
The Hon. Sam Word is in the city OIL
business.
F. g. Brown and wife, of Anaconda, are
in the city.
James Council, merchant Of Chico, passed
the 4th in the city.
Mr.. I. Simons went to Salt Lake City
last Monday evening.
Walter Ewing and family are in town
from Richmond Flats.
A. Noyes and wife are in from their ranch
on the Big Hole visiting Mr.. and Mrs. C. N.
Buck.
Miss Hough. sister OF DR.. Hough, arrived
from st. Louis and is q guest Of Mrs.
D'Acheul.
Horace F. Brown, Of Helena, after pass
ing the national holiday in this city left
last evening for San Francisco.
Among the guests of Butte who are al
ways welcome were Editor Miles OF the
New Northwest and his amiabls wife.
W. E. Catching, brother of B. F. Catch
ing, arrived in Butte Sunday from Oregon
and speaks very highly of the section he
visited.
Mr.. Edwards OF the Missouia Mercantile
Company. the champion who will get away
with all competitors in the tournament, is
in town to-day.
Hon. E. W. Toole, one of the leading
members of the northwestern bar, wal in
the city on yesterday bat returned home
to Helena on the evening train. He was q
casual caller at The MINER.
George IL. Morris left last evening for a
trip Of six weeks to the Pacific Coast for
the benefit of his health. After spending
several weeks in San Francisco he will then
take in San Diego and Los Angeles.
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The District Court.

The District Court convened yesterday
for the July term. The following cases
were continued for the term:
City of Butte vs. Gilbert Engle, City O
Butte vs.. Hector Godchaux, City of Butte
vs.. j. Bernhsim.
City of Butte vs. Frank Clancy; dis
| missed.
Montana Central Railway Company vs,
Dennis Farrell ct al; continued by consent.
Donald Va. Meader; ordered placed on
calendar and continued by consent for.the
term.
Montana Central Railway Company vs..
McCloskey ct al; continued as to certain
defendants.
The following is the Grand Jury dra wn
for the term: Geo. w. Irvine, foreman; H.
l.. Frank, Robert Grix Howard Babcock,
V. c.. Whiting, Thomas Fletcher, H. C. Ken
needy, John Noyes, VIM: Eva. Ben Tibbey,
VIM. Hamilton, J. K. Clark, w. G. Smith,
The petit jury drawn for the term is az
follows: Frank Shevlin, Charles Bausman,
Albert Tate. Peter Hess, j. Chauvin. T. O..
lilies, D NJ. Upton, John Penhal, John
Crowl, Daniel Neal. j. Broughton, John
O'Rourke, c. ". Cluett, 8. A. Earhart,
Ernst Spier. J. G. O'Farrell. Thomas Cody,
Alex. Cohen, T. NJ. Lowery. James Renfrey,
Joe P. Callan, E. N. Bowen, p. J. Hamil-
ton, w. Pinkham.
The following prisoners were b. ought into
Court to exercise their right OF challenge to
the panel and poll OF the Grand Jury:
Rowan, Early, Sheridan. O'Neill, King,
Cloudy and jenkins, who waived all chal-
lenges.
Territory VS.. Thomas Rogan; jury trial,
sealed verdict handed into Court.
Territory vs.. Corey: Jail breaking; &C.
Quilted.
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500; nine singles and three pairs doubles:
entrance -; first prize. so; second $50;
third, $50; fourth, SO.
Third Event-Consolation shoot; tan clsy
pigeons; entrance, 81; open to individua .
no~n-winners in proceeding event and ex-
Guiding winner Of Hight 4 Fairfield gold
badge. First prize, Winchester repeating
shot gun presented by Sam Louis 4 Co.;
second, reed rocker. J. Chaavin; third, two
hundred cigars. James Lynch. e. w.
Wynne offers toilet set a. . BOBBY
prize.
Arrangements for the accommodation
and enjoyment OF ladies have
been most particularly attended
to, with comfortable seats and
abundant shelter from the sun. Joe
Fischer has undertaken to see that the re-
freshments on the ground are frst-class,
which mean that they will be the best pro-
durable. A city policeman will be in at
tendance. The shoot will take place at
the clubs grounds west Of Missoula Gulch,
to be reached by crossing the bridge on
West Park street. No admission fee is
charged and all are welcome to attend.
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Confederation.

ERIE, Pa, July 5.-The town OF Claren-
don, in the upper oil country, was almost
wiped out last night by q con1agration
Over 100 business houses and dwellings
were consumed before 1 O'Clock. This
morning the flames we're still spreading.
The town had no fire department and the
people are compelled to fight the flames
with buckets OF water. The fire started in
the center of the town. originating from the
careless use of fireworks, and having
reached the oil tanks, the destruction
of the town was speedily wrought. John
Stewart was caught by a bursting
tank and cremated. It is feared many
have shared a similar fate. All the busi-
ness part OF the town wa destroyed. The
greatest excitement prevails. The valley
is full of fire and seething oil, and the peo-
pie, panic stricken, have fed to the hillside
for safety. No estimate has been put on
the loss, but it will reach half a million,
with but little insurance.
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New York World: Jake Sharp. now play
ing the game Of odd man out with tho jury.
oncs IN accomplished poker-player.
At Albany he may sometimes have played
to lose, when his opponents veEeleglslators
who had votes in the market. but at the
old Blossom Club he praeticed the riGors Of
the game. Often he would sit up sl night
With Boss Tweed and Peter B. Sweeney In
the party. Tweed was very lucky, gem
orally held first-rate hands, and betted
upon them ~ Il he had the City
Treasury to back him. Sweeney would
cut in and out Of the game, playinf
with keen inesse, endsevoring to read hit
opponents hands in their faces, and sci
dom venturing to blum. Sharp was . more
e scientific player than either Of his associ-
ates, and, in spite Of Tweed's big hands
and Sweeney's shrewd strategy, usually
came put ahead. His i~mperturbsble lace
showed no emotions; he talked little, and
whenever Tweed attempted q bold blum
or a large pot. Sharp seemed to have IN
INST net, called him and pocketed the
n ,OilR.
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TO.day's Shooting Tournament.

The shooting tournament, for which such
elaborate preparations have been made
and such handsome prizes hung up bylocal
merchants as encouragement of this form
Of sport, commences to-day under most
encouraging circumstances. Bozeman,
Helena, Missoula, Deer Lodge, Dillon and
Timberline clubs have arrived, ready for
the fray. There are other clubs yet to
hear from. The contest will begin at l p.
m. and the programme to-dayis asfollows:
First Event-Team shoot at % Ameri-
can clay pigeons per man; five members to
constitute a team; entrance IS per team;
first prize. Leyson & Tdrck championship
cup of Montana, value. 500, to be won
three times and then become the property
Of club SO winning; second, white
tail deer head, value $40; third,
oil painting, value $25. Besides
these Hight Il Fairfield offer a $25 cham
pionship gold medal to the highest individ-
ual score; Cans 4 Klein q IS pair of sus.
penders to lowest individual score; the
Kenyon Hardware Co. a $40 water cooler
as a BOBBY prize to the team making the
lowest score. Sam Louis being laid up, it
is possible that the team he hoped to rake
together to 90 in for the prize would not
m~aterialize.
Second Event-Individual shoot: purse
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artist. Ths support ~ = usual exesl-
lent. Tonight lns. Rhea win present
FAIRY Fingers" ons Of tie briehtest eems
Ia her repertoire. When produced here be-
fore It was received with every manifesto
ton Of approval. It aaerds Mle. Rhea
the opportunity for the display
OF that natural, graceful acting
that 10 20 artistic - to appear real. Her
sweet simplicity in Fairy Fingers" il the
embodiment Of I'll that 10 good and lows
BILE. That difficult role, . ''dressmaking
duchess" has in Rhea q fitting exponent.
The great millinery scene viii be made .
special feature. Nile. Rhea will wear a
number of handsome toilets and ~ the
evening has been selected a. q society event
q brilliant audience can be expected.
Edna COURTNEY IN HELENA.
Maguire's theatre At Helena was crowded
Fourth Of July night to witness Edna
Courtney a. Lady Claire. She 10 q pro-
nounced success and will do . large weeks
business there.
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Acquitted Of Jail Breaking.

The only case tried before the District
Court yesterday was the old one OF the
Territory We. A. Corey, charged with break
ing Jail. The defendant is the hero OF the
gold-brick swindle OF which he was acquitted
at the last term Of court. During his in.
generation on that charge it was charged
that he escaped from jail by breaking
through the ceiling above the cage and low
ering himself from the roof to the ground
by blankets torn into strips. He vas re-
captured this side of Dillon and brought
back to Butte for trial. The jury disagreed
at the first trial and he was again locked
up to be tried at the present term. The
case occupied all day, the jury retiring
about 4 p. m. and bringing in their verdict
OF not guilty about 8 o'clock last evening.
The Territory was represented by County
Attorney Dewitt AID Corey by F. T.
Mcbride and George Haldorn.
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A Back Yard Boom,

What are you doing, Tommy" asked
a Sioux Falls lady of her young son who
was sticking up stakes around the back
yard.
"Plat'in' a addition" replied the young
hopeful, whose father is q real estate agent
"How are sales?"
Bully, ma! Stubby Jones takes that
corner there by the gate for a peanut an
lem'nade stand, Bill Smith and Dutchy
take a block by the barn fer their circus an
Hen Jones is talkin' bout takin' two lots by
the apple tree for to tie up his dog on SOS
his dad can't shoot it. Say, ma, III let ye
in on the ground floor on that lot BY the
corner o. the house there to stand yer
flower-pots on-take it fer five cents an a
handful o. rais'ns. seein's it's you"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-06
Death Of ISadOre DeSrOsiers.

Isadore Desrosiera. aged 48 years, died
at 10 a. M. July 18th, 1887, at Mrs. Cor.
don's hotel near the Parrot smelter. He
has been sick for some time. and the i'm
mediate cause of death was blood poison
ing. He leaves a wife and six children in
st. Harmos, Canada, and two brothers in
Butte. Peter and Joseph Desrosiers. The
latter a at Missoula and arrived just in
time to attend the funeral, which took
place at St. Patrick's church yesterday
morning at 10 a.. m. A solemn requiem
mass was sung, after which the remains
we're followed to the cemetery by a large
%concourse of sorrowing friends. The de-
ceased was we'll known here and the sym.
patty Of many friends is extended to the
bereaved wife and children in Canada and
the brothers here.
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Y~e:lowstone Natiora, Park.

A gentleman who has been in town a iex
days and who has been q resident at the
National Park for seventeen years said
yesterday that the snow there has all gone
and the travel is splendid now. A great
many tourists are visiting the Park this
year. The hotels are all open and doing a
fine business. Il il expected that this year
will DO unusually goodin the way ofvisitors
to the Park. Game in the neighborhood is
in splendid condition. hunting being excel
lent on Crazy Mountain and along Slough
Creek. The authorities placer no restriction
excellent and generally enjoyed by the
visitors,
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NEW YORK. Jnlv &.

NEW YORK. July S.
The stock market was dull, quiet and weak TO-
day, though transactions were principally in q
hah-dozen stocks, the rest being uninteresting
There was a slim attendance at the Board this
morning, and though there were some purchas-
ing orders executed, the demand was soon sup
piled, when the traders embraced the opportunity
to raid the market, and q they met with no op-
position, values at the close of the day were ma
teriaily lower than this morning. A special in
preston was made in Louisville & Nashville and
Pacific. though all active stocks were sha1ers in
the decline. The attack upon values did not dis
lodge the long stock to any great extent. Pacific
Mail was sold upon the belief that Pacific roads
would be able under the ruling of the Inter State
Commission to make rates which would seriously
interfere with the usine ofthe compa y. COL
orado coal is of ~, Louisville 4 Nashville 299k6,
Canada Southern ~, Pacific Mail ~. New Eng
land and Manhattan ~, Omaha and Lake Erie
q Western preferred N. St. a and Oregon
Transcontinental III. Jersey Central and Denver
preferred11N. Governments dull and heavy.
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whore It Would Do the Most Coed,

Detroit Free Press: A trampish-looking
man with q particularly dirty lace was
hanging about a Woodward Avenuegrocery
the other day, when q clerk observed:
make good use of
"Yon bet" was the prompt reply.
He was handed one and vent of. In
about an hour he returned. his face a. dirty
al before, and the clerk exclaimed:
"You never used q bit Of that soap!
"You asked me to make good use Of it.
So l did. l traded it of Tor something to
wash over four weeks dust out Of my
throat. This dirt ON my faes isn't three
days old yet"
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Min ON BEECHER.
The Ex-Minister and Actors Views Of til
Life of the Late Great Evangelist.

The Ex-Minister and Actors Views Of the
Life Of the Late Great EVANGELIST,
But few residents of Butte awaited them.
selves Of the opportunity to hear the lee.
ture Of Geo. c. Min on THE Life and
! Services OF Beecher," which wal delivered
at the Opera House yesterday afternoon.
More's the pity. They missed the best
lecture ever delivered in this city, and both
Beecher and Ingersoll have occupied the
platform. Not that Min is superior to
these able men. but he had a subject upon
which he felt intensely, and his tribute to
the great dead was masterful in rhetoric,
replete with ideas, and fervid with elo-
quence. He spoke of a man whose per-
sonal friendship he had enjoyed and who
had been to him a beacon light in the
stormy path of life. His Offering was that
Of genuine r gard, for as he expressed it it
was impossible to make
A COLD OF BEEcHER,
the tongue or the pen refused the office OF
critic and involuntarilv ran into praises of
the force and power and influence of
Beecher. He said it was impossible to
find time to describe them. The CON-
pOnent parts Of his nature we're each so
great that he readily claimed to be the
greatest man the country had ever pro-
duced. OF his influence in religion, State
and politics the impress of his genius
would be felt for q long time to come. In
his eloquence he was the greatest natural
orator that the age had produced, and a
description of natural oratory was given
with Ingersoll. WeHdell Philips and Glad
stone on the one side and Beecher az the
antithesis. This passage of the lecture
was very beautiful. Referring to Beecher's
theology he declared that he
IN GOD
and possibly in the divinity Of Christ, but
that he utterly re~pudiated the narrow
path as laid down by sects, and saw in
the God he worshipped a personal God
full of tenderness and love and pity, not a !
God Of wrath and vengeance. This senti. i
was illustrated by reference to the
life work and ~utterances OF the deceased, |
showed how utterly heterodox he
was, yet how hopefully he believed in the |
broad creed he taught. In conclusion, the
expressed the hope hat in accor-
dance with his sublime faith and beautiful
teachings, although it was inconsistent
logic, that the grand old man had
q haven OF rest and reward at the
right hand of God whose glories and
he had SO honestly, e%loquently
successfully preached. This short
can give no idea of the lecture
was carefully prepared and filled
With happy thoughts, personal observa-
ions, logical deductions and happy illus
ration and both from a literary and
orensic point Of view was splendid effort.
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Didn't Know His Own Wife,

Las Vegas IN. NJ Optic: Mrs. Tom F.
Clay of this city has been absent for two
months in the Indian Territory, on a visit
to her old home. Yesterday morning her
twin sister Unexpectedly arrived from Cali
fornia. Clay was getting his bachelor
breakfastat the time. Seeing the lady ar
husbandly reception. It was not IN
til he began to inquire about the
children whom his wife had taken with her
on her visit, that he learned that the lady
was not Mrs. Clay. but her sister from Cal
ifornia. 1t may be said for Clay's vindica-
ton that it was not SO late even as the
third hour Of the day. and consequently he
could not be drunken with new wine. Then,
two. the twin sisters are so much alike in
their personal appearance.
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WAsunerox, July S.-The statement =
r.norted 1t the Treasury Department
showe that during the month Of juno sneIe
vas m increase Of $2,664,84O 10 sne
circulation and . decrease OF $3,17o,Sol
:, ...h IN the Treasury. There was an
-unsxpended balance of nearly og'Oo 49,
appropriations for fuel. light ana ..Ss;s
ana for the contingent expenses Of puohe
h.;id;n,s under the Treasury Department
durine the fiscal year just ended and the
mone1 has been covered in the Treasury.
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The School Section Division Postponed,

sion yesterday and allowed quarterly
salaries to all the county officers. The
question Of dividing the school district was
considered in the afternoon. Miss Layton
and School Commissioners Brownlee and
Brophy appeared before the Board, at it's
request, to give their views Of the subject.
Finally it was concluded to await Miss
Layton's report OF the sentiment among
parents by a house-to.house canvass OF
Centerville and Walkerville, which she
promised to return by Friday morning.
The Board then considered a number Of
accounts and adjourned.
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The U~nspeakable Turk.

LONDON, July 5.-In the House OF Lords
this afternoon Lord Salisbury announced
that the Anglo-Turkish convention refer
ence to Egypt had not been ratified by
Turkey, and that Sir Henry Drummond
Wolff, special British commissioner. had
been instructed to leave Constantinople.
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FLASHES.

The report on the Fidelity bank failure
will chow a shortage Of $4,000.
The hundred and forty-ninth bond
was issued yesterday, 81 look up your
scissors and prepare to clip your coupons.
Postofice inspectors are to be sent out
to report on the percentage of p~ostofices
with a view OF paying the clerks on that
basis.
It is maintained at the Treasury Depart
ment that the large expenditures to be
made between now and the first Of Sep
TENDER will reduce the treasury surplus to
about $50 1000 900 by the last named
date.
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Don't Show This tOYour Best Girl,

OOu CHoW 1n1B UU1VU1 11o1G 0111s
A plant has just been discovered in India
which destroys the power of tasting sugar.
The young man whose special object of
worshipis afflicted with an expensive desire
for French confectionery, should bride tho
candy man to use someo of the leaves of this
plant in making caramels, and take a
pound with him the next time he goes to
call.-Sommerville Journel.
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The Silver Business.

WARRINGTON, July 5.-The issue OF stand
ard silver dollars during the week, ending
July 2, was $685. 2O. For the same time
last year it was $4S7 ,5ss. The shipments
of fractional silver coin during the month
of June amounted to $68S,446.
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The william Tell House

ON East Broadway has lately been rem
waited and will from this time furnish hrst'
class lodgings for rs cents to SO cents pei
night. At the bar the finest OF wines
LIQUORS and cigars can be obtained. INT
Centennial and Butte beer on draught at 81
times. The house il noted as q Pleasan,
and comfortable house for ira velers ano
the liberal patronage of the past is suf1i
eient to recommend it in the future.
PETER Hess. Proprietor.
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The Deadly

PEsTH, July 5.-Durlng a drill Of sappers
at the capital OF Jazyzia. Hungary, yester-
day. a dynamite cartridge exploded pre-
maturely, killing ~ men and wounding 48
others. OF the killed four were officers.
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Radakin Found entity.

YUMA, CAL, July 5.-Nahdizaza. the
Apache found guilty of murder in the first
degree for killing Lieutenant Mott at San
Carlos, March 18th, and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life, was tnrned over by the
prison authorities to be taken to prison at
Chester, Illinois.
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STOCKS

STOCKS.
C~opper-steady' Lake, $1O.I.
Lead-Quiet; Common, $3.50.
~Tin-Steady n quiet.
Money on call loaned at from 3 to 10; closed,
offered 4. Prime mercantile paper, s and 5L.
Mining shares were dull: Amador, $1.OO;
Brunswick, 81 SO; Caledonia, B. H., 81. 40; Elcristo,
81. 80; Hale & Norcroes, "A 90; H0mlstake, S14. SO;
Silver King, Ss.5 so; Sutro Tunnel, $O.S1; Securi-
~, $5 so; Santiago, 1926; Standard, $l.O5; Bo.
die, 81. 80; California and Virginia, 5000.
Petroleum was dull and weak. opening 61M;
highest, 61A; lowest, COZ: closed 6oX. Sales,
699, 600 barrels.
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LIVE STOCK

CHICAGO. July 5,
Cattle-Receipts, 5000. Slow and steady. Ship
ping steers, $S.S5@4. 50; stOCkers and feeders,
$2.9O@s.4O; Texas cattle, s.. oo@s60.
Hogs-Receipts, 10000. Strong and 5 higher
early, closing easier. Rough and mixed, 5000
go; packing and shipping. &.10@5.55 light,
$5.00@5 27L.
sheep-Receip's, 1000. Steady. Natives, s. 90
GAS; Western, 5000 $50; Texans. SS.6O@8.7 rs,
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Rhea in "The Lady Of the Camelias.''

was presented last night by Nile.
Rhea and her excellent company to an au.
dience that made up in enthusiasm what
they lacked IN numbers. Camille az por-
trayed by Rhea has been reviewed in these
columns before. Her performance last
night was wSrthy the efforts OF the great